Dr Timo Lassmann

BSc (Hons) MSc PhD

Academic Head of Computational Biology

Timo Lassmann became interested in bioinformatics while
completing a bachelor degree in biotechnology at King's College
London. He then obtained a Master degree in bioinformatics in
Sheffield and his PhD in functional genomics at the Karolinska
Institute, Sweden. During this time he developed multiple sequence
alignment tools to analyse protein and DNA sequences.

In 2006 he moved to the RIKEN Institute Japan, where he
established data analysis frameworks to deal with next generation
sequencing (NGS) data. The latter include the large-scale
transcriptome datasets generated as part of the ENCyclopedia Of DNA
Elements (ENCODE) and the Functional ANnotation of The Mammalian
Genome (FANTOM) projects.

His main research interests include sequence analysis,
probabilistic modelling and large scale data integration using
machine learning approaches.